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How the spacetime evolved non-perturbatively in a landscape with multiple anti-de Sitter (AdS) vacua, which is theoretically well-motivated, has always been a matter of concern. As a step towards this issue, we perform (3+1)D numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Pu-Xin Lin , Hai-Long Huang , Jun Zhang , Yun-Song Piao

It is argued that the lesson we should learn from Bell's inequalities is not that quantum mechanics requires some kind of action at a distance, but that it leads us to believe in parallel worlds.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-13 Lev Vaidman

We consider the proposition that multiple universes exist by reviewing the various manifestations. In recent years, this idea has been elevated from science fiction and introduced in separate guises as an explanation for coincidence…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alasdair Macleod

The interior of a vacuum bubble in de Sitter space may give an open universe with sufficient homogeneity to agree with observations. Here, previous work by Bucher, Goldhaber and Turok is extended to describe a thin bubble wall with nonzero…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. D. Cohn

The space-like hypersurface of the Universe at the present cosmological time is a three-dimensional manifold. A non-trivial global topology of this space-like hypersurface would imply that the apparently observable universe (the sphere of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Boudewijn F. Roukema , Vincent Blanloeil

Seeking a relativistic quantum infrastructure for gauge physics, we analyze spacetime into three levels of quantum aggregation analogous to atoms, bonds and crystals. Quantum spacetime points with no extension make up more complex link…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-06 David Ritz Finkelstein , Heinrich Saller , Zhong Tang

We model the universe as a 3-brane embedded in five dimensional spacetime with N=2 supersymmetry. The presence of the scalar fields of the universal hypermultiplet in the bulk results in a positive pressure effectively reducing the value of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-04 Charles A. Canestaro , Moataz H. Emam

I put forward a simple unidimensional mechanical analogue of the three-dimensional universe models of modern relativistic cosmology. The main goal of the proposal is the appropriate appreciation of the intrinsic relationship between…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Domingos Soares

The three cosmological conjectures to which our work refers are: the phenomenon called geodesic incompleteness, the physical gravitational $\theta_G$-term that would characterize the 1-parameter family of inequivalent vacua of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-24 J. L. Alonso , J. M. Carmona

Quantum mechanics introduces the concept of probability at the fundamental level, yielding the measurement problem. On the other hand, recent progress in cosmology has led to the "multiverse" picture, in which our observed universe is only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-10 Yasunori Nomura

Recent advances in string theory and inflationary cosmology have led to a surge of interest in the possible existence of an ensemble of cosmic regions, or universes, among the members of which key physical parameters, such as the masses of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. C. W. Davies

Usually, we assume that there is no inhomogeneity isotropic in terms of our location in our uni- verse. This assumption has not been observationally confirmed yet in sufficient accuracy, and we need to consider the possibility that there…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-06 Hiroyuki Negishi , Ken-ichi Nakao

``One could imagine that as a result of enormously extended astronomical experience, the entire universe consists of countless identical copies of our Milky Way, that the infinite space can be partitioned into cubes each containing an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Pierre Luminet , Boudewijn F. Roukema

We consider the multiverse in the intrinsically quantum mechanical framework recently proposed in Refs. [1,2]. By requiring that the principles of quantum mechanics are universally valid and that physical predictions do not depend on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Yasunori Nomura

A Multiverse can arise from landscapes without de Sitter minima. It can be populated during a period of eternal inflation without trans-Planckian field excursions and without flat potentials. This Multiverse can explain the values of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Paolo Mangini , Gabriele Rigo , Lian-Tao Wang

In this short note we study the questions of (non-)L-equivalence of algebraic varieties, in particular, for abelian varieties and K3 surfaces. We disprove the original version of a conjecture of Huybrechts \cite[Conjecture 0.3]{H} stating…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Alexander I. Efimov

This paper is the third in a series investigating the possibility that if we reside in an inflationary "bubble universe", we might observe the effects of collisions with other such bubbles. Here, we study the interior structure of a bubble…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 Anthony Aguirre , Matthew C Johnson , Martin Tysanner

We consider a cosmological model in which our Universe is a spherically symmetric bubble wall in 5-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. We argue that the bubble on which we live will undergo collisions with other similar bubbles and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Warren B. Perkins

Have you ever watched superhero movies like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse? Or played games where your choices create different outcomes? What if we told you that in the real world, something even crazier might be happening all the time,…

The possibility of fundamental theories with very many ground states, each with different physical parameters, changes the way that we approach the major questions of particle physics. Most importantly, it raises the possibility that these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 John F. Donoghue